Usually means: Initiate movement using stored energy.
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We found 17 dictionaries that define the word wind-up:

General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. wind-up: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  2. wind-up, wind-up: Collins English Dictionary
  3. Wind-Up, Wind-up, wind-up: Wordnik
  4. wind-up: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. wind-up: Wiktionary
  6. wind-up: Dictionary.com
  7. Wind-up: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. wind-up: FreeDictionary.org
  9. wind-up: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. wind-up: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. wind-up: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. wind-up: Medical dictionary

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. wind-up, wind-up: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. wind-up: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. wind-up: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (wind-up)

noun:  The end or conclusion of something.
noun:  The punch line of a joke or comedy routine.
noun:  (British) A humorous attempt to fool somebody; a practical joke in which the victim is encouraged to believe something untrue.
noun:  (baseball) The phase of making a pitch where the pitcher moves his or her arm backwards before throwing the ball.
noun:  (television) A circular hand gesture, supposed to represent the winding on of film, used to signal to a performer to finish quickly.
adjective:  (of a machine) Needing to be wound up in order to function.

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